Paris Day 2. DRIES. MARGIELA. More collabs: FENTY x PUMA. MURAKAMI x GUESS. NAS x PUBLIC SCHOOL announced. My favorite 21st-century NAS quote: at around 28:58… When worlds collide: how does J.G. BALLARD’s CRASH, influential to so many pomo thinkers (and this RCA designer) relate to this superb interview with J.W. ANDERSON? (promise not to say pomo no mo’)…. Couture from car parts… AMAZON revolutionized logistics, enabled innumerable startups to spin up virtual servers with AWS on the cheap (pay-as-you-go), algo-priced a book at, ah, let’s see, twenty-three million, some odd dollars, and change, so—what do y’all think about AMAZON FASHION? Would love to see an AMAZON BASICS line that embodies that same egalitarian, no-brand-brand their tech line serves up. Translate that to apparel. A 2000s-office hacker aesthetic meets SAVE KHAKI quality. Or better yet, 1990s-era JOHN DOERR style. Packaged in that brown cardboard box… A new vision for the phrase, “like watching ice melt”… Is STATES OF UNDRESS getting a season 2? Say yes, VICE… The OG dandy. Brummell, the BEAU. Feared, followed, admired, ridiculed—mostly beloved—in his day, and centuries thereafter. MICHAEL CHABON wrote this incredible piece about his (dandyist) son, ABE… As CHRISTINA MOON points out (got TECH PACKS, anyone?), discussions about flows of capital, global supply chains (chainz), and “transnational circuits of labor” disintegrate when confronted with the daily, lived experience of people working in the fashion industry. That goes for style as a form of individual expression, too. Although dandyism represents many things, IMHO it resonates most for its representation of freedom—an individual’s right to exist according to self-made rules, forging a path using the stuff of contemporary society itself—symbolism, irony, fashion, wit. This giving over to artifice, not as duplicity/deception or as superficial veneer, but from the Latin root facere (facio): “I do, I make”… New LAPHAM’S QUARTERLY out, themed flesh. Thus far not one mention of underboob.